[8] Daniels, In Freedom's Birthplace, p. 7.
[9] New International Encyclopedia, p. 166.
[10] Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Va., p. 32.
[11] Ballagh, Hist. of Slavery in Va., p. 31.
[12] Washburn holds that the moral stamina of sturdy people seeking freedom argued against enslavement. Slavery as it once prevailed in Mass., p. 194.
[13] "If twenty negroes came in 1619, as alleged, their increase was very slow, for according to a census of 16th of February, 1624, there were but twenty-two then in the colony." Neill, Hist. of the Va. Co., p. 72.
"When the census was taken in January, 1625, there were only twenty persons of the African race in Virginia...." Virginia Carolorum, pp. 15, 16, 22, 33, 40, 59, 225; Brown, The Genesis of Am., II, p. 987.
[14] Ballagh, History of Slavery in Virginia, pp. 9-10.
[15] The group brought over in 1638 by Menefie was an unusually large number: "Menefie was now the leading merchant. On April 19, 1638, he entered 3,000 acres of land on account of 60 transports, of whom 23 were, as he asserts, 'negroes, I brought out of England.'" Virginia Carolorum, p. 187 note; Ballagh, White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia, p. 91 note.
[16] "Intended insurrections of negroes in 1710, 1722, 1730, bear witness to their alarming increase...." White Servitude in the Colony of Virginia, p. 92 note.